NLSIU opens doors to the liberal arts 36 years after it transformed the way law is taught.

The five-year BA.LLB program, which was introduced by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bengaluru thirty-six years ago, revolutionized legal education in India. However, the institution is presently expanding its academic portfolio with non-legal programs after launching a three-year BA (Hons) degree in 2025.Although the goal of these activities is to make NLSIU a multidisciplinary university, some have questioned whether the school is going too far and deviating from its original goal of being a leading legal college.

Since its founding in 1988, the NLSIU has embraced the five-year integrated BA.LLB program, which was developed by N R Madhava Menon, who is regarded as the nation's founder of contemporary legal education. Other law schools throughout India have been inspired by the program's multidisciplinary approach, which blends law with the humanities and social sciences.However, as part of its expansion goals, NLSIU is currently attempting to reposition itself as a multidisciplinary institution in light of the changing higher education market and growing competition from private universities. at actuality, the Karnataka government has consented to lease NLSIU an extra seven acres of land on the Bangalore University campus at Jnanabharati for a duration of thirty years at a rate of Rs 50,000 per acre year. At the moment, NLSIU operates on a 23-acre facility within the BU campus.All first-year students in the BA and BA LLB programs will be offered a common core set of foundational courses as part of the NLS BA program. Students will also have the opportunity to choose between majoring in history, sociology and anthropology, politics, and economics, learn a few Indian languages, and take practice courses in subjects like artificial intelligence and machine learning, filmmaking, business consulting, user experience research, digital journalism, creative writing, entrepreneurship, policy advocacy, and analysis.